Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Browsing peacefully in a tiny pasture at Llwyncelyn, near Llandilo. in a desolate part of Carmarthenshire, Wales, last week, three cows had the fright of their lives as a trim blue & silver monoplane suddenly dropped down out of the mist to a bumpy landing beside them. As the cows' owner ran up, out o? the plane stepped a black-jowled, slick-&-kinky-haired man wearing a very dark shirt, a very light necktie. In a voice which sounded as if he had a hot potato in his mouth he demanded: "Is this Scotland...
...victory evoked a chorus of criticism from U. S. pilots, who credited a rumor that the French Government had spent $1,000,000 in developing Detroyat's speedster. "It just isn't fair," snapped Roscoe Turner, whose injuries kept him from competing, "for a foreign government to trim a bunch of little guys who build airplanes in their backyard...
...spring quashed that ambitious project to harness the tidal waters of Maine's Passamaquoddy Bay for a giant New England power system (TIME, June 8). Last month the last of a $7,000,000 Works Progress Administration appropriation gave out, left the War Department holding a collection of trim homes, shops, warehouses built for the project's administrative workers on a sandy strand near Eastport. The skeleton staff decamped and 'Quoddy Village became a ghost town...
...next most eminent prisoner was Lev Kamenev (ne Rosenfeld), onetime President of the Moscow Soviet and Ambassador to Italy, professorial in his fastidious dark suit,' trim white beard and twinkling pince-nez. The other 14 prisoners, obscure at first, were destined for notoriety last week as the trial proceeded...
...wheel of the trim little schooner Sewanna, the best yachtsman the nation ever had for President put out from Pulpit Harbor, Me. early last week with Sons James, John and Franklin Jr. for shipmates, a crew of two. "I haven't the faintest idea where I'm going, except to work to the east'ard," he told newshawks before casting off. "I'm just going to loaf and have a good time...